Located in the North Pacific Ocean, Wake Island was an island of great strategic importance during World War II, and over the last few days it’s been in the news again, as is it was directly in the path of the oncoming Hurricane Ioke – the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Central Pacific. Fortunately all 188 people who live here were evacuated safely by plane before the hurricane arrived, but at around 6am yesterday (August 31st) the island’s automated weather station seems to have stopped functioning just before the southwestern eyewall passed over the island. Some of…